The grateful elephant, Opening, part 1, sentence 39
Combinations like _th_ and _dh_ should be pronounced as in _hothouse_ and _madhouse_.
What happens: pronounce · To what, where: Combinations
This is a sentence of «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Combinations | combination | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 dh | case |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
| 4 | th | that | ADP | _ | 2 like | conj |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 like | cc |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 2 like | punct |
| 8 | dh | dh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Combinations | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 pronounced | punct |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 pronounced | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pronounced | aux:pass |
| 12 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Combinations | advcl |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 hothouse | case |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hothouse | case |
| 15 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 14 in | punct |
| 16 | hothouse | hothouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pronounced | obl |
| 17 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 12 pronounced | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 madhouse | cc |
| 19 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 madhouse | punct |
| 20 | madhouse | madhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Combinations | conj |
| 21 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 1 Combinations | punct |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Combinations | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | should · passive | as hothouse | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The grateful elephant» by Eugene Watson Burlingame, Project Gutenberg book 74064 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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